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Oct 04, 2013 By Mike Hilleary Fiona Apple

Back in August while performing a Louis Vuitton party in Tokyo, Fiona Apple walked offstage when the crowd refused to stop talking during her set, at one point climbing on top of her piano to get her point across. Currently touring alongside singer/songwriter Blake Mills, performing new original compositions alongside selections from her most recent album The Idler Wheel…, Apple was once again confronted with an unruly audience when a woman in the balcony yelled “Get healthy, we want to see you in 10 years.”

According to reporter Dave Greenwald of The Oregonian, who was in attendance, “Apple, sitting at the piano, turned distraught. ‘I am healthy,’ she said, and stood up to face the audience. The next few minutes were full of awful madness: Apple visibly emotional and swearing at the heckler, most of the crowd shouting support, but some lodging more insults. ‘You’re a has-been!’ a man shouted from the rafters. That shook her. Mills approached her and spoke into her ear. She called for the house lights to go up and asked for the first heckler to leave. She wanted to walk off stage; for long moments it seemed like the show would end right there, all her stormy power evaporating. But the lights went down and the band did one more, cutting the ballad ‘I Know’ from the set. That would’ve been too much. Apple, in tears, apologized and walked off, calling it ‘a historically stupid night.’”

At point Apple said “I’m not going to convince someone I’m healthy.” Apple and Mills are set to continue their tour tonight in Seattle.

“Anything We Want: An Evening with Fiona Apple & Blake Mills” Tour:
10/04 – Seattle, WA @ Benaroya Hall
10/07 – Los Angeles, CA @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
10/08 – Berkley, CA @ Zellerbach Hall
10/11 – Denver, CO @ Boettcher Concert Hall
10/14 – Minneapolis, MN @ The O’Shaughnessy
10/15 – Chicago, IL @ Bank of America Theatre
10/17 – Toronto, ON @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre
10/19 – Philadelphia, PA @ Merriam Theater
10/22 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre
10/23 – Boston, MA @ Emerson Colonial Theatre
10/25 – Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre
10/26 – Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre

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